Magistrate Uh (Spoiler request)

[ronin]

Question for those that know, did the real Magistrate Uh in history die of “pestilence”? He was never featured in episodes 1-4 like Captain Chung Oon. I like Magistrate Uh and that fat squid Deluce(?) who was at Fort Konwon on Nakdune Island with Captain YSS. Also what kind of “pestillence” were they infected with that hit the Left Cholla base? Was it the bubonic plague because of those marks or small pox but the make up artist couldn’t get the pox mark effect in time? They should have burned the bodies, surround both the barracks of the unaffected men and infected men with lighted torches to kill any airborne diseases. Another thing they should do was dump the bodies on the Japanese Fort in Pusan, but that might be disrespectful for them to do. The Mongols did that with diseased human corpses or farm animals. They would use their siege engines built by their Persian and Chinese engineers and shoot the body over a city fortress in Central Asia or Middle East and India. Early form of biological warfare. Timurlane the Terrible was more imaginative when he wanted to exact fear. When he was besieging a Christian Crusader fortress in Anatolia (modern day Turkey), shiploads of reinforcements from Europe came to their comrades aide. Timurlane the Terrible drove them all back in fear by catapulting the heads of their crusader comrades toward the reinforcement ships who already captured the fortress by then. Timurlane the Terrible was more vicious than Chingiss Khan, Stalin, Hitler, or any of the Japanese Taishos and Daimyos put together. He collected people’s heads (both civilians and military prisoners) and made them into a head pyramid and gave his Generals quotas to collect heads in Persia. He also ordered his Mongol Cavalry Army to trample to death children and locked women, children, and old people in Christian churches and mosques and have it burned down while they were still in it. He wanted to invade China like Chingiss Khan but ironically he died of old age.

[Daemado]

The war diary entry for the ninth day of the fourth moon, year of Kab-o (1594) notes:

"Assistant defense captain (O Yong-tam) passed away to my deep sorrow and grief."

Disease swept through the navy's ranks around this time, and records show that Magistrate Uh was in the thick of fighting during the previous month, so it's logical to conclude that he fell victim to some acute illness.

[TheBo]

My goodness, Ronin, that's certainly a painful exposition of terror. And also a pretty lucid explanation of how the plague was spread to Europe.

Bo

[florel]

Daemado, you're right. Magistrate Uh died of epidemic in April 1594.

Ronin, Tamerlan was really terrible !

Several years ago, I saw "Tamerlano" of G. F. Haendel in a Parisian Opera theatre. He was not terrible in the opera as he was in real history.



About epidemic stuff...

Between 1593 and 1595, the whole Chosun land was swept by epidemics. The navy camp on Hansan Island was not exception. The situation was the most serious especially during Spring-Summer 1594. In real history, Admiral YSS and, probably, Constable Kwon Jun were also sick. The Japanese camps were also affected.

I guess it was not the bubonic plague. It would be typhoid or it could be various epidemics. The most widespread and frequent epidemics during Chousun period were typhoid, typhus, smallpox, malaria, cholera, influenza and morbilli.

Chosun was severely suffered from epidemics during the Imjin War. That's why king Sunjo ordered Huh Jun and other royal physicians to compile Dong ui bo gam, famous Korean medical encyclopaedia. The work started in 1596 and finished 15 years later.



* A biographical drama about the famous royal physician Huh Jun (1546-1615) was aired in Korea in 1999-2000. I heard it had a great hit in Korea and it's airing in Hongkong now. I mentioned about this drama in another thread concerning Korean historical dramas set in reigns of king Sunjo and of Prince Gwanghae - Historical dramas : King Sunjo and his son

I heard king Sunjo in this drama was not as terrible as the king in IYSS. The king's role was played by Pak Chan-Hwan, our lovely Constable Kwon in IYSS. I never viewed this drama. My Korean compatriots certainly know very well about it.

[BungalowDweller]

ronin said:

Also what kind of “pestillence” were they infected with that hit the Left Cholla base? Was it the bubonic plague because of those marks or small pox but the make up artist couldn’t get the pox mark effect in time?

I ,too,wondered if this was the Plague, or the "Black Death". Some say that the Plague originated in China, and spread to India, Egypt and Asia Minor before reaching the European continent. Other scholars maintain that the Tatar armies brought it from the steppes of Kirghiz to Europe. It circled the globe but was particularly virulent in Europe, where it first appeared in Italy in October of 1347.

According to the author Barbara Tuchman, noted historian and Pulitzer winner(for her work Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century) the Plague is believed to have killed over one-third of the European continent--about 20 million people.

At the height of the disease in the summer of 1350, the cities of Pisa and Vienna lost 500 people per day--Paris lost 800 per day. Florence and Vienna lost over 60% of their inhabitants.

Although the Plague didn't reach Great Britain until 1350, the losses in England were enormous. In London alone over 80,000 inhabitants died in that summer (about one-third of the population). Long after the pestilence died out on the European continent, it clung to England like a wet jacket. From 1350 through the 1600s the Plague continued to flare up; a young Isaac Newton fled his university to escape the pandemic in 1655! It was a scourge to Elizabethan England and in spite of Good Queen Bess's efforts couldn't be eradicated. It left as it came--on its own.

So I agree with Florel--I think that it was too late to be "THE" Plague but it certainly was something out of the devil's kitchen.

[florelle unlogged]

bungalowdweller said:

I think that it was too late to be "THE" Plague but it certainly was something out of the devil's kitchen.

I'm really sorry that the devil's devices didn't take Won Kyun away.